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Silver Star Service Banner Day

Congressional resolutions have expressed support for designating May 1 as Silver Star Service Banner Day, including Senate action for May 1, 2015 and House Resolution 855 supporting May 1.

Date / rule1 May; congressional resolutions have supported specific-year designations
ScopeU.S. military-service commemoration honoring wounded or ill service members and veterans
VerificationCongressional Resolution Historical
PortabilityHistorical Legacy
Evidence statusSource-backed
Last authority check2026-09-07
Target-year policyHistorical Only
Next occurrenceNot projected automatically

This record requires a current target-year source or is intentionally historical.

Authority summary

What is Silver Star Service Banner Day?

Congressional resolutions have expressed support for designating May 1 as Silver Star Service Banner Day, including Senate action for May 1, 2015 and House Resolution 855 supporting May 1.

Date and recurrence

1 May; congressional resolutions have supported specific-year designations

This is retained as historical or legacy evidence. The site does not assume that the observance still recurs today.

Scope and status

The verified scope stored for this record is U.S. military-service commemoration honoring wounded or ill service members and veterans. The site preserves that boundary and does not infer broader government, global or public-holiday status from the observance name alone.

Also known as

Silver Star Banner Day

Classification

Topic and context

Civic, Remembrance & History →
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What this page does not assume

  • Keep the source-defined country, community, organizer or institutional scope; do not silently broaden it.
  • Do not treat the title alone as proof of government recognition or public-holiday status.
  • Do not add a creator, founding story or origin claim unless the supporting evidence establishes it.
  • Refresh the target year before publishing a new date when the record is not safely portable.
  • Historical Context Only.
  • Remembrance Civic Context Care.
Provenance

Sources

Source policy →
  1. Congressional Record — S. Res. 136 (2015)Government
  2. Congress.gov — H. Res. 855Government
Reader questions

Frequently asked questions

When is Silver Star Service Banner Day?

1 May; congressional resolutions have supported specific-year designations The stored recurrence guidance is: 1 May appears in specific congressional resolutions; do not assume permanent federal designation.

Does Silver Star Service Banner Day fall on the same date every year?

The record is historical/legacy and is not treated as a currently recurring annual date.

Is Silver Star Service Banner Day an official public holiday?

The authority record verifies it within this scope: U.S. military-service commemoration honoring wounded or ill service members and veterans. That recognition does not by itself make it a statutory public holiday; the site only makes public-holiday claims when the supporting authority record explicitly does so.

Who established or recognizes Silver Star Service Banner Day?

The stored designation basis is: Congressional resolutions have expressed support for designating May 1 as Silver Star Service Banner Day, including Senate action for May 1, 2015 and House Resolution 855 supporting May 1.. Supporting provenance includes Congressional Record — S. Res. 136 (2015). The site does not infer a separate creator or founder unless reviewed evidence establishes one.

Is Silver Star Service Banner Day international or country-specific?

This authority record is country-scoped to United States. Its fuller verified scope is: U.S. military-service commemoration honoring wounded or ill service members and veterans.

How is this page verified?

The factual layer is source-backed and keeps its date rule, scope, provenance and editorial guardrails attached to the authority record. This record was checked on 2026-09-07.

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